blink of an eye
It’s been a few weeks since last I wrote and all my plans got derailed…
By me.
I’m going on gut here, but I think I’m doing the right thing because it feels so gol darn good…
I’ve shelved draft edits of OR in favor of working on CR.
Believe me, that was a very tough decision. I’d thought OR would be a fast read/edit, but when I started re-working, it became painfully clear that it was a long way from being anything that resembled polished.
That was when I realized that that book–hell, that whole series–is really my passion. It’s got everything I ever looked for in a book when I was a teenager just starting to put pen to paper.
Therefore, it deserves more from me now that I have the time and wherewithal to do it. I think I need to wallow in it. Yeah. Because back in the day, that’s what I would have done.
So, in the mean time, I’m plowing through CR and absolutely loving it to pieces. Just like when I edited BR.
Every time I read a book, there’s always something I would’ve done differently and now that I get to write the book, it’s nice to see that whenever there’s something I’d’ve done differently, I can hack it out and do it the way I’d do it. Gee, that reads weird…
Anyhow, I think it’s funny when I read my own stuff and wonder why the hell I wrote it the way I wrote it instead of the way I should have written it. What planet was I on? Is the chocolate smoother, richer, sweeter there? Hello? Anybody home?
But change is good in any case. It’s an experience I can learn from.